Today I learned that it just takes time to learn. I was sitting in the library finishing up from taking notes from a video and realize that this 30 minute video took me 3 to 4 days of 25 minute increments to finish. The first time I watched this video I didn’t take any notes at all. I just watched it all the way through. But this time I knew that I wanted to keep the info in my journal. I knew that I wanted to constantly review the information. I knew that that this video was worth the time to sit down and really extract the information. The process of rewatching the video and listening extra hard to truly understand the concepts being explained and then store it in my journal took longer than I thought. I realized how much stuff I missed by just casually viewing it. I realized how packed the video was of great information. I later did my calculus homework and realized the same thing. There were so many steps to just one problem. There were things that I didn’t fully understand until I continued to study them. There were patterns I didn’t recognize until after awhile. What I’m realizing is that the brain is a miraculous thing that kind understand anything you throw at it. But it requires as much time necessary to fully comprehend foreign concepts. Learning in my opinion is all about pattern recognition. Once one notices the pattern of how a problem works one can then make steps to work on that problem. But if not enough time has been spent learning the patterns and what to do with those patterns one will surely make an error. That made me realize why I shirked off reading and becoming a serious student of life. There’s always a deadline approaching and there is always something fighting for your attention. It takes a serious commitment to invest however much time necessary to gather and learn information which will most likely improve the quality of my life. To me that’s no problem. I understand now that having a “as much time as it takes” attitude is necessary to get to where I want to get to. I understand what a world’s difference being more knowledgeable and more skillful could do for one’s life. It just takes times. To truly learn more. To truly increase one’s skill set. Quoting early just prolongs the learning curve.That’s just the way it works. And that’s okay.